I'm using my last column of the year to summarize remarks I made to the December graduates. In that address I suggested that it was not too early for students to think about how their biographies will...

When it came time to start touring colleges back in high school, I felt overwhelmed by the uncertainty of what the future held for me. Most of my high school classmates had decided to stay put in Louisiana...

In line at Nacho Hour, a friend and I lamented our lack of post-grad plans. "You've got to have a pretty thick skin," she notes, in reference to the hundreds of job applications which come back as automated...

I'm a huge NBA fan, but I'm an even bigger fan of the playoffs. Something about the best in the world, playing their best, brings out the little kid in me. So, in honor of the start of NBA playoffs, this...

Motivation for school doesn't come easily, especially in January, which is why I have given up entirely on trying to motivate myself.  In short, I have lost all motivation to ever be motivated.  That...

I read a book over the break. It's a collection of nonfiction and short stories by Marina Keegan, a Yale alumna who died in a car accident five days after her graduation. It was entitled "The Opposite...

In last week's Trinitonian, columnist Megan Reynolds wrote of the courage necessary for free and uncensored self-expression, and she was right. Speaking freely, especially as an artist, sometimes takes...

I received some great posts in advance of this week's #AskTingleTU column. Some of the more intriguing questions included: 1) my midseason thoughts on the college football playoffs, 2) could an NFL team...

As I waited in the Mabee pasta line the other night I looked over and saw a girl eating at the end of a table. Ordinarily I wouldn't have taken any note of her"”nothing seemed outlandish or particularly...

You know, I should probably start thinking about what I want to do after I graduate, since I'm a senior. Maybe I should have already started thinking about that. Maybe I should have started thinking about...

In sixth grade, after my last final of the year, a boy named Reese licked my glasses. Reese approached right before class ended. He told me that my glasses looked cool and he wanted to try them on. So...

For those of you who have yet to read our First Amendment coverage on page 5, here's a recap: the First Amendment is important. "Important" does not even begin to describe it, actually: it is VITAL to...